India | History, Map, Population, Economy, & Facts | Britannica
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Jan 26, 2023 · Throughout its history, India was intermittently disturbed by incursions from beyond its northern mountain wall. Especially important was the coming of Islam, brought from the northwest by Arab, Turkish, Persian, and other raiders beginning early in the 8th century ce.Eventually, some of those raiders stayed; by the 13th century much of the subcontinent was under Muslim rule, and the number of ...